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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 11 in St. Tammany Parish as the \"Jimmy Buffett 'Changes in Latitude' Memorial Crossing\". (8/1/24) (EN +$1,100 SG EX See Note)"
+description: "ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 11 in St. Tammany Parish as the \"Jimmy Buffett 'Changes in Latitude' Memorial Crossing\". (8/1/24) (EN +$1,100 SG EX See Note)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 44"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 44 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Patrick McMath"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-02-26"
+last_action: "2024-05-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d2c29d1-82ab-4877-8e70-818f0446d7ec"
+source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245796"
+source_hash: "71839902f20ed3016f870b6d88c20e36503fb4adf52fe46b16a4404535dc231f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana SB 44 (2024) — ROADS/HIGHWAYS: Designates a portion of Louisiana Highway 11 in St. Tammany Parish as the "Jimmy Buffett 'Changes in Latitude' Memorial Crossing". (8/1/24) (EN +$1,100 SG EX See Note)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB44 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1346828)
+2. **SB44 Act 120** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1378103)
+3. **SB44 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1354307)
+4. **SB44 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375166)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#332) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#1082) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- CO-AUTHORS (#333) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Patrick McMath — primary (person)
+- Adam Bass — cosponsor (person)
+- Adrian Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Alan Seabaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Beth Mizell — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Glorioso — cosponsor (person)
+- Caleb Kleinpeter — cosponsor (person)
+- Cameron Henry — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleo Fields — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Larvadain III — cosponsor (person)
+- Gary Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerald Boudreaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Luneau — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean-Paul Coussan — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Stine — cosponsor (person)
+- Jimmy Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- John "Big John" Illg , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Bouie — cosponsor (person)
+- Katrina Jackson-Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirk Talbot — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Abraham — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael "Big Mike" Fesi — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Reese — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Connick — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Dewith Carrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Regina Ashford Barrow — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert "Bob" Owen — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Allain — cosponsor (person)
+- Roger Wilder III — cosponsor (person)
+- Royce Duplessis — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie Berault — cosponsor (person)
+- Stewart Cathey , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Pressly — cosponsor (person)
+- Vincent Cox III — cosponsor (person)
+- William "Bill" Wheat , Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-22** Effective date 8/1/2024.
+- **2024-05-22** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 120. `became-law, executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-16** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-16** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2024-05-16** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
+- **2024-05-15** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
+- **2024-05-15** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2024-05-14** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/15/2024.
+- **2024-05-01** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
+- **2024-04-30** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2024-04-29** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-18** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2024-04-17** Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2024-04-17** Called from the Calendar.
+- **2024-03-19** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
+- **2024-03-18** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2024-03-13** Rules suspended. Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d2c29d1-82ab-4877-8e70-818f0446d7ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+